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Not just programmers. Anyone using ZFS with SSD, whether as the pool itself or in various caches like slog(zil) is going to find this information of use when tu
by yourapostasy 4y ago
Not just programmers. Anyone using ZFS with SSD, whether as the pool itself or in various caches like slog(zil) is going to find this information of use when tuning for better SSD citizenship. Programmers treating SSD like faster spinning rust is like programmers treating S3 like another POSIX filesystem; you can do it, but you're trading away compounding future advantages for that one moment of expedience.
- dekhn 4y agoIn my career I have found that file system tuning for the devices an anti-pattern that almost always ends up causing more problems than it's worth.
- philjohn 4y agoAre you writing low-level software, such as filesystems, or raw block backed database storage engines? If not, then that's definitely a decent maxim to live by.